Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Here's an axiom of the new budget math for state officials: '80s into '90s won't go. For much of the past decade state budgets were pushed into the black by a buoyant economy that kept tax revenues pouring in just fast enough. In a pinch, states could unveil a new lottery, nudge up the sales tax or practice the kind of creative accounting that shifts one year's outlays into the next. But with the economy slumping and voters raising a fuss at the very whisper of new taxes, the assumptions of the '80s are not working anymore...
...mood in Montreal this week was buoyant. Nobody seemed to be mourning the agreement...
...neither romanticizes nor flinches from the popular image of Gypsies as a primitive, stealthy people. But he also sees them as a Third World nation of wanderers, displaced and dispossessed in the midst of European bounty. They can survive only on their dreams and their cunning; the film's buoyant visual style is true to both. It is the style of magic realism, the blending of grit and sorcery that soars through the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Kusturica knows that magic realism finds its perfect home in the movies, and in this story. On the big screen everything must...
...husband at the Victor Verster prison farm near Cape Town last week, she was radiant and smiling. For the first time Nelson Mandela had talked about making arrangements for his homecoming. According to family lawyer Dullah Omar, the black nationalist leader who has been imprisoned since 1962 was "buoyant, confident and raring...